Consumer electronics companies are increasingly using offshore partnerships to drive benefits beyond labor arbitrage. Such companies are leveraging offshoring to drive competitive advantage by tapping into specialized skills and expertise offered by developing economies in…
Trade unions, individual consumers, labour groups, campaign organisations, academics etc. from all over the world have joined in the protest to condemn the suicidal regime at Foxconn’s Chinese production sites and the still inadequate responses…
Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn has seen a wave of suicides among employees of its Longhua plants over the past months. GoodElectronics and makeITfair have published a public statement severly criticising this situation and calling upon…
Over the past months a wave of suicides has occurred at the Foxconn plant of Longhua in southern China. Reportedly, 12 employees all between 18 and 24 years old have attempted to commit suicide. Foxconn…
A recent report by labour rights organisation Cividep shows that in the electronic sector wages are still below the living wage calculations, even if they seem to be comparatively better than in other manufacturing sectors…
When centrally controlled economic systems collapsed and the markets of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) opened up to foreign capital, most of the world’s big electronics companies started to invest in the region. How did…
The report: “Greening Consumer Electronics: Moving Away from Bromine and Chlorine” features seven companies who have engineered environmental solutions that negate the need for most — or in some cases all — uses of brominated…
Warranty provider SquareTrade analysed failure rates for over 30,000 new laptop computers covered by SquareTrade Laptop Warranty plans and found that one-third of all laptops will fail within 3 years. Lap tops of nine brands…
On the occasion of World Telecommunication and Information Society Day on May 17, thousands of signatories will put pressure on mobile phone companies across Europe to pay greater attention to fair labour standards.”This campaign, organised…
In 2004 SOMO started researching labour issues in the supply chains of computer companies. This resulted in different reports, company profiles, the launce of the makeITfair campaign and extensive consultation with the computer industry. Now…